Editing Demeter (section)

==Iconography==
[[File:Didrachme de l'île de Paros.jpg|thumb|left|Demeter on a [[Ancient drachma|Didrachme]] from Paros island, struck at the [[Cyclades]].]]
Demeter was frequently associated with images of the harvest, including flowers, fruit, and grain. She was also sometimes pictured with her daughter Persephone. However, Demeter is not generally portrayed with any of her consorts; the exception is [[Iasion]], the youth of Crete who lay with her in a thrice-ploughed field and was killed afterward by a jealous [[Zeus]] with a thunderbolt.

Demeter is assigned the zodiac constellation Virgo, the Virgin, by Marcus Manilius in his 1st-century Roman work Astronomicon. In art, the constellation Virgo holds Spica, a sheaf of wheat in her hand and sits beside constellation Leo the Lion.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stott|first=Carole|title=Planisphere and Starfinder, pp. 69|date=2019-08-01|publisher=Dorling Kindersley Limited|isbn=978-0-241-42169-7|language=en}}</ref>

In Arcadia, she was known as "Black Demeter". She was said to have taken the form of a mare to escape the pursuit of her younger brother, Poseidon, and having been raped by him despite her disguise, she dressed all in black and retreated into a cave to mourn and to purify herself. She was consequently depicted with the head of a horse in this region.<ref name=oxford_companion>Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow, eds. ''The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization''. OUP Oxford, 2014; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.42 8.42.1–4].</ref>

A sculpture of the Black Demeter was made by [[Onatas]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausainias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.42.7 8.42.7].</ref>